Overview
- Forty-two houses in Joji/JJ Nagar, Bhavanipuram, were demolished this week, displacing families who say they have lived there for about two decades.
- YSRCP leaders visited the site, pledged legal and political action, and demanded responses from Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Nara Lokesh, and Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan.
- CPI(M) sought a comprehensive probe, annulment of allegedly fraudulent society registrations, compensation for affected families, and government support to rebuild.
- Opposition accounts allege an early-morning operation involving heavy police presence and hired muscle, no meaningful notice, and harassment of residents who could not remove belongings.
- Residents say they bought and registered the plots years ago, paid taxes and utility bills under VMC oversight, and that the high-value land has faced repeated eviction attempts, while the ruling coalition offered no immediate public response in reports.